Lou Reed - Hang On to Your Emotions lyrics

When your imagination has too much to say
When the chill of the night meets
The sweat of the day
And you have trouble understanding what
Other people have to say you'd better

Hang on to your emotions
Hang on to your emotions

When a demagogue inside your
Head has taken charge
And by default what you say
Or do is criticized
And this litany of failures is
Recited a thousand times you'd better
Hang on to your emotions
Hang on to your emotions

Could it be you've never felt like that
That your mind's a cage -
Inside the cage a cat
That spit's and scratches all it can get at
And that's you, and your emotions

Could it be you've never felt like that
Your mind's a cage - inside the cage a rat
Rabidly trying to get at you
And your emotions, you and your emotions

When your imagination has too much to say
When that facile voice inside your head
Says give your life away
You might think to ask - how it got that way
What books it has read -
That make it that way
And where it got the right -
To speak to anyone that way you'd better

Hold on to your emotions
Hold on to your emotions

When a night city's breeze
Blows across the room
And a 5 am moon and sun start their swoon
You hear your lover's breath
And not a moment too soon you get to

Release all your emotions, you get to
Let go of your emotions, and now
Release all your emotions, you'd better
Let go of your emotions

Release, I wanna let go i wanna release, now